I was working in Orkney, North of Scotland, on the fish farms.
And thats when I looked up and saw a four foot tear in the side of the net.
I told the supervisor who said get out straight away.
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Turns out the seals had been killed by Orca and somehow got through the net in a panic.
Only one of the seals had a bite mark, the other two got caught in the net.
Not supernatural or anything but I remember a significant shiver running down my spine that day.
2.I dive myself but heard this story from a garda diver.
The salesman managed to escape my breaking the window and swimming to the surface.
My buddy likes to dive in lakes.
4.I got told a story once by a Maori Language teacher of mine during my time at High School.
We didnt learn much Maori, just listened to stories.
So from being prevented from doing their natural life duties they just get larger and larger.
Wasnt as creepy in hindsight but 10 year old me was scared.
She kicked down and swam under us last minute.
We didnt see anything until that 60 ft freight train passed just underneath us.
8.When living off the coast some buddies and I would take regular fishing trips out to the oil rigs.
I bet he was watching us the whole time.
9.An old WW2 ammunition ship off the south cost of england was full off brass topped shells.
I could not see the body as it looped into the dark and deeper into the ship.
No one got near those shells.
I told the lifeguard, but he wasnt able to find anyone.
11.Im a commercial diver, and was once on a job cleaning a potable water reservoir.
Id been in other reservoirs before, but this was by far the biggest, at 4080 metres.
I was about half way through a three hour dive when the batteries in my torch started going flat.
I watched the beam get narrower and dimmer until it cut out completely.
Just as I started walking back, some obnoxiously loud banging started somewhere in the reservoir.
I was the only diver in there, so it both confused and scared the shit out of me.
Needless to say I ran back to the hatch as fast as I could.
12.I used to teach canoeing lessons to Boy Scout troops at a local neighborhood lake.
Super small lake thats not very deep but the bottom was hella thick with vegetation.
There was a small clubhouse, an open pavillion, and a playground all on the property.
When doing lifeguard work in the water during a swim test, my sunglasses fell off my head.
It took a few people to untangle it but how the eff it got there was beyond me.
Like the size of vans.
This was about 90 feet deep just off Vancouver Island, Canada.
The situation gave myself and the other divers the newbie jeebies.
Logged the gps and depth co-ordinates and notified the police.
Every so often Id get this unshakable feeling that something big was watching or following me.
Sometimes I could quiet that part of my brain and continue with the dive.
Other times I couldnt shake the feeling and would end the dive after a few minutes.
17.I once went diving in port Elizabeth, South Africa where it is quite popular to see sharks.
18.When I used to surf I spent a good deal of time underwater whether intentional, or not.
One day, I went out in surf that was absolutely massive (for me).
It was 10 foot solid all day.
And it was a very dark, overcast Winters day.
You couldnt see shit above the water, let alone below.
At this place, the bigger it gets, the further out on the rock shelf it breaks.
So I was at least 200 m from shore when out of the gloom towered an absolutely massive set.
As big as Id ever encountered.
There were only a handful of other blokes out there.
The wave was mine.
At this point I wasnt scared at all.
No, I wanted to get the biggest wave of my life.
I got onto it but I just fucked up the position of my feet, ever so slightly.
No chance of pulling out, so I tried to go with it.
And that is when it happened.
The scariest fucking water-based experience I ever had.
I fell off and this thing just took me to town.
It just kept pushing me down.
I was held there for what seemed like an eternity.
At this point I was panicking.
I cant quite remember how I escaped.
I have rarely been that scared in all my life.
I made it to the surface.
I really thought I was going to pass out.
I cant remember much more but I must have paddled in so fucking fast other people noticed.
They came to see what was the matter.
I just sat on the beach.
I could not even talk.
Im getting the fucking heebie jeebies even reading my own recollection.
19.The story isnt really mine, but from a friend of mine who does night dives.
This thing is massive and you have to go really deep to get to the slope with the coves.
His partner stays back with the flashlight and he goes closer to the reef.
He then tries to stay at the same level, but he has his back to the reef now.
Then cocks the gun with the harpoon and waits.
Regis finally decides to start ascending very slowly.
The weird feeling he had got worse and turned into chills.
He said he never saw something so big underwater and it swam fast.
They both call it the blackfish, since they couldnt really see what it was.
Its said to be as big as a man, about 1.7m.
Regis lost the harpoon in the end.
Both of them still dive at night.
Its a no-no for me, though.
